Project 4: Composition Presentation + Supporting Documentation

· Due 29 May by 1:30

· Points 100

· Submitting a file upload

· Available 4 Mar at 0:00 - 3 Jun at 23:59

Weight: 30%

Deliverables - formats & submission dates:

· Canvas discussion post (Week 12, Tuesday, 8:00pm)

· Composition presentation (Week 12 during class, Wednesday 1:30-4:30pm)

· Digital sound file, image file and PDF upload (Week 12, Friday, 8:00pm)

Grading Criteria: Project 4 Grading Criteria Rubric

ASSESSMENT DESCRIPTION

In this final project, you will draw on the work you have produced across the course, through projects 1, 2 and 3, and develop and produce a creative composition about your chosen sonic environment.

This project has three deliverables:

1. Creative composition

2. Supporting documentation, including digital sound and image files

3. Canvas discussion post and in-class presentation

Deliverable 1: Composition

Develop and produce between 3 and 10 minutes of creative composition that communicates your findings or expresses your listening experiences in your chosen sonic environment, based on your findings in Project 2.

You must record audio material to use in your composition. These recordings must be original, and must be recorded in your chosen location or represent your interpretation, memory or listening experience of your chosen location. You may use a combination of personal recordings and other audio resources to develop your composition. Your composition must include a minimum of three audio recordings that you have personally captured. Any media sourced externally must be sourced from the RMIT library and credited appropriately.

RMIT Pro Sound Effects library: https://library-prosoundeffects-com.ezproxy.lib.rmit.edu.au/#!explorerLinks to an external site.

If you are unsure if your chosen sound sources meet the assessment requirements, you must discuss with your tutors before submission.

Your full composition must be rendered/exported as a stereo .wav or high-quality .mp3 file and accompanied by supporting documentation (details below). Students who present multichannel/ambisonic compositions in the SIAL Sound Studios in their final presentations in Week 12 will still need to supply a stereo mix of their work.

Deliverable 2: Supporting Documentation

You must compile your stereo .wav or .mp3 audio file of your composition, a .png image file of your graphic notation, and a PDF of approximately 2,000 words of supporting documentation to be uploaded as a compressed .zip folder via Canvas.

Your supporting documentation must include the following:

1. Composition Title

Title of your creative composition.

2. Composition Aim/Intention

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· Summarise the intention/aim of your composition -- what findings you aim to communicate or listening experience you intend to express through your creative work.

· [indicative word count: 200 words]

3. Intended Listener Experience

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· Describe in detail the intended listener experience of your composition. What sounds do you intend the listener to focus on? Do you expect the listener to recognise the environment? What emotions do you want the listener to feel? Are there particular thoughts/memories/ideas that particular sounds or events are intended to evoke?

· Your description must consider and discuss how a listener's experience of your composition may vary from your own, depending on their own experiences setting and knowledge, to demonstrate your deep understanding of the complexities and subjectivity of sound.

· [indicative word count: 200 words]

4. Summary of Media

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· Provide a detailed and descriptive list of each sound used in your soundscape composition.

· For personally recorded audio materials, detail the location it was captured in and how the recording/sound was used in the composition.

· For all other media, reference the source of each material used and provide at least a one-sentence justification for its use.

5. Graphic notation

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· A creative graphic notation of your soundscape composition, which may take the form. of a notated timeline, or a spatial graphic map.

· The graphic notation must a well-developed iconography (set of icons and symbols) to represent sounds in your composition and their qualities (e.g. sound envelope, duration, sound loudness, movement, fluctuation, feeling).

· The notation must be accompanied by a legend that defines what each icon/symbol represents.

· Graphic notation must be provided as a .png file of at least 1920px width/1080px height

6. Production Summary

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· Provide a detailed and descriptive account of the production of your composition.

· You don't need to account for all of your production here; instead, highlight a few significant examples of both fieldwork and production.

· What are the moments or instances of fieldwork that informed your creative approach?

· What are the key moments or iterations of your editing, drafting and listening that informed or changed your approach to the composition?

· [indicative word count: 800 words]

7. Reflection

Reflect on your project and respond to the following questions:

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1. How did you arrive at the composition aim/intention that you wanted to share, express, communicate or represent about the sonic environment? Make reference to projects 1, 2 and 3.

2. Why is your composition aim/intention valuable to you and/or other listeners? What factors, experiences and/or events led you to your composition aim/intention?

3. What did you learn about the place during the development of your composition? Make reference to your field work where relevant.

4. How has your relationship to this place changed across your listenings and investigations? Make reference to your place-based work across projects 1 and 2.

5. How successfully do you feel you have expressed your composition aims and intentions?

6. How similar or different is your final work to your composition proposal (Project 3)? Why?

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· [indicative word count: 800 words]

Deliverable 3: Presentation & Canvas Discussion Post

You must choose up to five minutes excerpted from your composition to be presented during class in Week 12. Before your presentation, you must create a discussion post on Canvas titled Student Name - Composition Title. In the Canvas post, include:

· Embedded sound file of the composition excerpt to be presented

· 100-word explanatory statement

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon successful completion of this assessment, you will be able to:

· Apply your listening skills for identifying and analysing the principal components of a soundscape

· Critically assess a soundscape in relation to listener needs

· Critically discuss and present design ideas and findings about a soundscape using aural, oral and visual methods

· Research, construct and implement a sound-design project to represent a soundscape.